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Animal Combinations; Mixed exhibits questions
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 09:51 PM (123,864 Views)
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Can Dugongs, Oriental Small Clawed Otters, and White handed Gibbons? Of course there would be islands for the gibbons and otters as well as a large pool for the dugongs.
Edited by Guat, Feb 6 2015, 10:03 PM.
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Nope, the dugongs would be pestered by the otters and potentially be stressed to the point of death. But the others would work.
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Feb 6 2015, 09:49 PM
Nope, the dugongs would be pestered by the otters and potentially be stressed to the point of death.
I thought smaller otters were okay with Dugongs as they weren't as aggressive as larger species, Oriental Small Clawed Otters are the smallest Otter species IIRC.
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Madagascar Giant Jumping Rat and Aye- aye?
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About the Okapi: They can be (And have been) combined with pretty much all Duiker species, Dik-dik, and various small monkeys and birds. Wouldn't risk Red River Hogs, since they're quite large and agressive.

I hope you meant Manatee, as Dugong are entirely saltwater, very rare in captivity, and wouldn't just be "thrown in a pool in a weird combination." Dugongs are very vulnerable in stress, so certainly them I wouldn't combine.
I think you should be okay when using Manatees instead, but then of course you have the issue of the fact that the habitat with the other species doesn't overlap.

Aye-aye and Malagasy Giant Rat... Sure, I don't see why not. Aye-aye are pretty much entirely arboreal, whereas the Rats are entirely terrestrial, so they probably wouldn't even notice much of each other's precense. You do have to make sure that the Aye-aye could potentially have access to a seperate area, for they are quite easily stressed.
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Okay. I'll put the Dugongs in a separate exhibit.
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Does anyone know of some good combinations for a tropical rainforest themed zoo? I can't come up with some good combinations.
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yougotta be more specific
what animals do you want to use ?
then I canmaybe tell you some good combos
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- Chital/any other Asian Deer
- Okapi/Duiker
- Gorilla/Patas Monkey
- Guenon/Spotted-neck Otter
- Congo Buffalo/Red River Hog
- Bongo/Duiker

These are the ones that immediately come to mind
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Will this work:
-White-headed Lemur, Ring Tailed Lemur, Red Ruffed Lemur, Nene, Laysan Duck, Agile Wallaby, Long-tailed Ground Roller
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In real life it would work but in the game long tailed ground rolled harass the lemurs so they don't drink.
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I really, really doubt that'd work. Lemurs don't tend to mix well (I don't recall ever seeing a mixed lemur habitat) and the birds are just too much in there. If anything there'd be way too many animals in the exhibit, let alone if they'd get along.
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How have you not seen a mixed lemur exhibit? I recall a few of them. For example...

Denver Zoo- Mongoose Lemur/Ring Tailed Lemur
San Francisco Zoo- Sclater's Lemur/ Ring Tailed Lemur/ Red Ruffed Lemur/ White-headed lemur
Houston Zoo- Ring Tailed Lemur/ Red Fronted Lemur
Catoctin Zoo- Black Lemur/Ring Tailed Lemur

There is also a lemur/hyrax exhibit somewhere.
Edited by Burns, Feb 8 2015, 11:23 PM.
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That seriously surprises me xD I have been to thirty something zoos and have never seen a mixed habitat xD

But still, I don't think it's a good idea to have the lemurs with the birds. That's just asking for injury on one side or the other.

(genuinely have no idea about the lemurs and wallabies)
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Well I had second thoughts so I'm just going to get rid of the Laysan Duck and the Nene, geese can get aggressive.
Edited by Guat, Feb 8 2015, 11:30 PM.
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